Online retail store giant Amazon has agreed on Monday agreed on a settlement over a law suit filed by a high school student accusing the company of indiscriminately deleting an e-book copy he bought for his Kindle reader.
Amazon.com has expressed intention to settle the case as it filed the necessary documents at the Seattle-US District Court on Monday.
Based on the acquired documents, Amazon said that it will no longer remotely delete copies of e-books from its customers’ Kindle electronic readers. But Amazon has also set several exceptions to the said deal.
A US District Court judge who handles the case said that he will go through the document for further evaluation. He is expected to issue a decision on the settlement filed by Amazon in the coming weeks.
It will be recalled that Amazon came under fire from several people after learning that the company deleted copies of e-books from the users e-readers, particularly the Kindle.
One of the most prominent was Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old high school student, who accused Amazon of remotely deleting the copies of his George Orwell novels, 1984 and Animal farm.
The move by Amazon has also affected the student’s electronic notes, which was also deleted during the process.
The student said that everything he had work so hard for was included and that there is nothing he can do to take back the notes. He said that he is suing the online retailer to avoid another incident in the near future.
The student was out of reach for comments and his lawyers refused to comment of the settlement amount.
Amazon.com had earlier said that the deletion of the said novels from the Kindle electronic readers was due to rights issue with the said title. The online retailer has also said that they are willing to provide a refund to all affected users.
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